[yt-dev] 2.6 release?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

+1

I’m planning on working on yt stuff this weekend.  If anyone is interested in sprinting over a G+ hangout, I’d be up for that.

On November 11, 2013 at 11:51:13 AM, Cameron Hummels (chummels at gmail.com) wrote:

Perhaps a compromise on the release date is to release 2.6 by mid-week next week?  Or even Friday of next week?  That way job apps can still reference the material which will be the main release, and will be put out before Thanksgiving (most job apps are viewed after Thanksgiving, even ones due prior to it), and it gives us a chance to get some due diligence on all of the blockers for 2.6.  I agree that we should shoot for having functional code (and docs) above having something out there in the wild quickly.

I agree with the sentiment that we can and should continue to tweek the docs (and bugs in the code) on the 2.x branch even after 2.6 release.

The main things I see as blockers on 2.6 are the doc issues I've listed as "blockers".  I'm going to go back through them right now, and make sure they're all assigned to someone, and that the responsible person knows that these isses are blockers and should be done in the next 1-2 weeks.


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
Waiting on the PR is totally fine with me.  Let's get that stuff right before we release it.  I will definitely keep working the docs for it and have those ready for when the Profile/PhasePlot PR is ready.

That stuff aside, maybe here is where everyone should report in with what they'd like/need to get done before the 2.6 release and when they would like that release to take place.  For me, other than any additional tweaks I might have to make to the Profile/Phase PR, my remaining assignments are all in the docs and I should be able to get them all done this week.

Finally, I would like to add a proposal that we allow for some additional doc tweaking after the official 2.6 release.  We should definitely finish all of the blocker issues that have been laid out before releasing, but there will surely be small things that can be improved on that we might happen across at some later date.  As this release or one soon after will be the final 2.x release, I would like to leave it as close to a finished product as possible.

Britton


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
My main concern is that I’m not happy with the current state of ProfilePlot and PhasePlot going out as they exist in the open PR.  That’s not a dig on Britton - he did a great job - I just think we can do better and provide something that’s fully functional and tested.

That said, I don’t think that can happen by Friday.  As I’ve said elsewhere I’m happy to look at ProfilePlot and PhasePlot this weekend.

Britton, please don’t let this stop you from updating the docs for ProfilePlot and PhasePlot.  If anything breaks in your docs (I expect it won’t) I will update the docs myself.

-Nathan
On November 11, 2013 at 10:53:37 AM, Matthew Turk (matthewturk at gmail.com) wrote:

Hi Nathan,

Well, so, I have to take the fall for this one. Last week, there was
some discussion about what needed to happen for a release, and I
misunderstood everything, evidently! I thought that the main issue
was the profile/phase plot code and the remaining doc tickets. So
this weekend, Britton issued the updated PR (which addressed the
comments you brought up in your original comments on the PR) and was
doing some docs updates.

This morning, I took a look at what was going on, and wrote to Cameron
asking him to decide which bugs for the docs were blockers and which
were not, and if we could try to aim for having everything in a
workable state by Friday, so the release could go out. (Only a few
weeks overdue -- and most of those weeks were due to *me* dragging my
heels!)

My main concern here is: people are putting out job apps, and some of
those job apps reference code that's in the yt 2.6 code base. I think
a good way to "do right by contributors" is to make sure that,
especially in a vulnerable time in a career, the project tries to
support them in whatever way it can. I've done a poor job of
implementing that, as releases have languished and gone on, and I was
just trying to right the ship, as it were. Ultimately, though, I do
think we should not release something we're not really happy with,
although I'd like to try to avoid having perfect be the enemy of good
enough. Maybe a good compromise would be to figure out what is still
necessary, come up with a reasonable timescale, and discuss it openly.
I screwed that up, and I'm sorry.

Anyway, I know there's been a lot of talk about 2.6 being the last
major 2.X release. Maybe that's put some pressure on this release
that's not warranted, and I will take the blame for that, too. I
anticipate we'll be fixing little things, tweaking docs, and on and
on, for some time to come. Just because I would like to encourage
people to try out 3.0 doesn't mean everybody has to stop using what
works. I expect much of our existing userbase won't change for a
while.

-Matt

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Cameron just pinged me about a docs issue with a Sizemore about the 2.6
> release happening on Friday. Can we hold off on that for another week or
> two? I'd like to be able to work on ProfilePlot and PhasePlot this weekend.
>
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